YouTube’s bans on crypto-related content has been problematic for the industry and is spurring demand for decentralized alternatives. However, according to Wes Levitt, head of strategy at Theta Labs — the firm behind Theta.tv — both YouTube and decentralized platforms can co-exist. YouTube is increasingly banning crypto-related content. In April, Jason Appleton, known as Crypto Crow, was banned from YouTube briefly. In May, Cointelegraph’s Bitcoin halving Livestream was canceled abruptly. Levitt told Cointelegraph, “We definitely see this censorship of crypto content as a problem, and we've recently welcomed several crypto streamers onto Theta.tv platform as a result. A fully decentralized …

Esports superstars of the popular first-person-shooter game Counter-Strike will participate in a crypto-powered tournament where fans will be able to bet with crypto tokens. The tournament is sponsored by Verasity — an attention based platform for video, gaming and entertainment rewards with a native VRA token. The tournament will feature Nathan Schmitt (NBK) and Asia’s best player Kevin Susanto (Xccurate), who according to the press release, have two million fans worldwide. Verasity has signed a long-term deal with the players agents. The company is also in the process of obtaining a gambling license in Curaçao. VRA aims to take on …

Crypto lending, one of the fastest-growing industries in the blockchain ecosystem, has made it possible to earn yields and borrow capital using digital assets. According to a report by research company Credmark, the volume of crypto-backed loans increased seven-fold in 2019, ultimately reaching $8 billion. Experts speculate that crypto lending will attract more investors into the crypto market by increasing its liquidity. “You can think of lending as this incredible grease that just pushes everything forward at a much faster rate”, states Paul Murphy, CEO at Credmark. However, lending and borrowing crypto is a risky practice due to the high …

Blockstream CSO Samson Mow explored a variety of topics in his latest interview on Cointelegraph’s YouTube channel. Watch the full interview above and be sure to subscribe to the channel for more weekly crypto content! Blockchain in Gaming Mow is not only the chief strategy officer at Blockstream, but also the founder and CEO of game development company Pixelmatic. He created the company after working for two years as a Director of Production for Ubisoft in China. His interest in gaming economies stems from his experience playing Lineage 2. He recalls that he and a friend ran a gold farming …

In today’s Crypto Markets Live, veteran traders Charlie Burton and Naeem Aslam will discuss one of the key aspects of every successful trading strategy: risk management. No matter how good you are at reading the charts, if you don’t have a well functioning risk management strategy to back up your trading, you will almost certainly end up losing money. Aslam and Burton will share their best insights on how to manage risk while trading cryptocurrencies and traditional assets. In particular, they will focus on basic principles, such as how to best calculate win/reward ratio, how to diversify your trading portfolio, …

The creator of Litecoin, Charlie Lee, discussed the upcoming MimbleWimble upgrade which aims at enhancing Litecoin’s scalability and privacy. Lee noted that Litecoin’s upcoming implementation will be able to scale much better than other privacy-focused protocols, like Monero or Z-Cash. “It does privacy and scare very well compared to other implementations”, he said. Talking about the risks involved, Lee pointed out “hidden inflation”, a bug commonly affecting privacy coins which allows hackers to counterfeit an infinite amount of coins. However, “The risk is manageable”, Lee noted, pointing out that the privacy feature will be implemented solely on the MimbleWimble extension …

Welcome, all traders, to this week’s Crypto Markets Live show featuring traders CryptoBirb and Big Chonis. Whether you’re just getting started or have been trading for years, you’re bound to learn something new today. We’ll be analyzing Bitcoin (BTC) and other top cryptocurrency markets while exploring the step-by-step processes that inform every decision to trade. CryptoBirb has been trading MTF momentum swings actively since early 2017 with a positional background. He is an occasional scalper who uses a custom momentum indicator combo called the Birbicator. He is also interested in spot, futures, options and CFDs across crypto and legacy markets. …

In a recent investigation, European police busted a major illegal online streaming business that had reportedly been running for the past five years. Bloomberg reported that the police conducted 15 house searches, arresting 11 people and successfully taking down 50 servers across nine countries. The European law enforcement agency Europol claimed to have found cryptocurrencies, property, jewelry, luxury cars, and cash worth $5.4 million from the business owners. An additional $1.25 million were frozen in several bank accounts, Europol stated. Making $17 million in five years The streaming ring, which mainly operated out of Spain, was a highly organized illegal …

Charlie Shrem has been involved in crypto longer than almost anyone. He likes to joke that he was one of the first ten people to ever hear about Bitcoin. He now hosts the crypto-focused podcast Untold Stories, which attempts to chronicle the history of crypto through the eyes and experiences of its most influential players. Cointelegraph’s most recent live Q&A gave the audience the opportunity to directly question Shrem about crypto, his past, and anything in between. The topics ranged from XRP, DApps, and stablecoins to his time spent in prison. Shrem revealed how he first heard about Bitcoin, who …

Brett Gibson, a partner at Initialized Capital, has revealed the main criteria used by his venture capital firm to invest in early stage startups and shared his views on the most promising products on the market. Initialized Capital invests in early stage companies before they get to product/market fit, which means they still need to develop a product that meets the needs of the market. In that stage, Initialized Capital looks at the startup founders as the main criteria for investing. “Before you actually know what the product is and what market exactly they're going to be serving, the founders …

A leaked slide from a client meeting shows Goldman Sachs does not believe Bitcoin is an asset class. Coinbase angel investor Seth Ginns and Fundstrat analyst David Grider explain why Goldman continues to hold this antiquated position. Ginns and Grider joined Cointelegraph’s weekly Crypto Live Show to bring an investor’s perspective to the usual trader-heavy lineup. They also dive deeply into a broad range of topics including how they began investing in crypto, why they’ve stayed, crypto’s macro impact on the world of finance, private and central bank digital currencies, and institutional involvement in the space. Watch the livestream’s full …

In his new documentary “Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet” award-winning filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann gives his perspective on how the crypto industry has evolved in the last five year. His first documentary about crypto “Bitcoin: the End of Money as We Know it” came out in 2015 but a lot has changed since then: new blockchains, characters and narratives have emerged in the crypto space. As the director points out in our conversation, back then the industry was united around Bitcoin and the struggle against the financial establishment. Now the industry has split into different groups each …